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  • Location: North York, ON, Canada
  • Cost: $62 per month
  • Install: about 2 days
Installed within 2 business days
The new hard caps offer no value & evening slow downs
Stay away... Shaw's overage billing utopia will eventually screw you
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Quick review on the service... had it for 3 months. Had one internet disconnection for a few hours early in the morning... which normally wouldn't have been a problem, except my security alarm is connected to the phone line. So the alarm panel beeping at 5AM woke us up because the phone line was disconnected. We received no advanced notice of the outage, I found out after the fact that it was for an upgrade.

Speeds, I only saw full speed in the morning. Prime time right until I went to bed... I would be lucky to see 500KB/second... and upload in the evening for P2P was usually capped at 10KB/second. (was paying for extreme... 1500KB down) Apple movie trailers won't play properly... you get about 10 seconds of playing... 10 seconds of buffering. Netflix HD content would stop playing 2 or 3 times as it backed the bitrate off.

The caps shaw is currently imposing on it's customers are only going to get more and more restrictive as video streaming becomes more and more popular. Because of the caps alone... I would only use shaw as a last resort.

member for 21.6 years, 539 visits, last login: 11.3 years ago
updated 11.3 years ago


Merinx
@shawcable.net

Merinx

Anon

Bhellshit!

Don't forget lowering our caps based on Shaw's old monitor was utterly and totally inaccurate. Which made adjusting all our packages down based on those stats total Bellshit.

shawca
@174.4.147.x

shawca

Anon

Re: Bhellshit!

Can anyone else confirm that these services (or similar services) are being throttled with their accounts also?

Lets try to find out just how quickly they are moving on this already.

Ripped off
@shawcable.net

Ripped off to Merinx

Anon

to Merinx
I am sure they are playing a game by reducing limits then recieving complaints. They will then go back to the old limits and stupid people will be happy. Kind of like the guy who beats his wife then buys her flowers and she is so happy he is so romantic.

I just signed up for Nitro and was told 500Gb and now I find out it is 350GB caps. So they want me to pay $150 for Nitro and another $50 for an extra data package so I will have to pay $200 for cable! I think I will move to extreme and add two $50 data packs until I can find an alternative!

PS Nitro is not worth it. Web sites don't even come close to the speed so functionally I do not notice much benefit!

Ripped Off
@shawcable.net

Ripped Off

Anon

Ripped Off

I am sure they are playing a game by reducing limits then receiving complaints. They will then go back to the old limits and stupid people will be happy. Kind of like the guy who beats his wife then buys her flowers and she is so happy he is so romantic.

I just signed up for Nitro and was told 500Gb and now I find out it is 350GB caps. So they want me to pay $150 for Nitro and another $50 for an extra data package so I will have to pay $200 for cable! I think I will move to extreme and add two $50 data packs until I can find an alternative!

PS Nitro is not worth it. Web sites don't even come close to the speed so functionally I do not notice much benefit!
Speed bot
join:2010-10-30
canada

Speed bot

Member

Re: Ripped Off

I'm currently on Nitro too and was sold on the 400GB offer, then it was upgraded to 500GB with their slogan " Upload and download even more than ever", only to reduce their caps 30% later, with overcharges, claiming the 25% increase was a trial, NO were did it say trial in the email or banner announcement.

Can't F*cking wait to get off Shaws network, they are a sleazy, dishonest company now.
Doonz (banned)
join:2010-11-27
Beaumont, AB

Doonz (banned)

Member

Not sure what the reviewer is talking about

Can you please provide the documentation the supports your claims that UBB has been implemented and that users are being charged for the said overages
lostspaceman
join:2012-07-26
T3N0K7

lostspaceman

Member

Re: Not sure what the reviewer is talking about

The jump off a cliff reaction to data caps on this site is hysterical. I have yet to hear of a single person actually getting charged for going over... Most of these have bashed Shaw to the extreme and jumped over to Telus, who is now lowering their data caps and implementing overage charges (according to their website anyhow).

What gets me is that they're not happy just hating Shaw, they go after people who are happy with their service and malign them for it.